In a book that I just finished, Son of the Mob 2 by Gordan Korman the main character goes to film school in L.A. and lives near Ringo. He and his friends go on Ringo lookouts and at the end of the book, they are celebrating a certain thing and start singing Octopus' Garden.

(the whole Ringo thing is actuallt just a tiny detail in the book, BTW, it's not even part of the plot)

i read a diary about a drug addicted girl called, Go Ask Alice, no one knows if it was fiction or not, but she mentioned how her friend left to work for money to pay rent, and heard "she's leaving home", and how she started crying.

I read one that showed a girls Myspace/Facebook type page ( not a real site though) and it said her favorite group was 'Lenin McCarthy' then later the Beatles song 'Yes It Is' was metioned.

I also just read a book where A guy's favorite band was Blondie (the book was titled Debbie Harry Sings In French) and in the beginning his baby sitter was looking through his mom's vinyls and they were almost all Beatles or Wings. Then later he bought a pair of Beatle Boots.

OMGGP! really GHL wow thats something I would do In the outsiders ponyboy says "They all got of out of the cars with their semi-beatle haircuts" and in this other book called Sons of Destiny darren and Mr. Tiny have a funny conversation about the beatles Mr. Tiny: I know everything about you Darren Shan Darren: Oh yeah then who's my favorite Beatle!

^ I read that in Engish class a couple weeks ago :-) I practically shouted "like George Harrison!!!!!"

me too, i was scanning the pages for references too oh, and today we read 'the gift of magi', and when i turned the page after the story ended, the lyrics of 'when i'm sixty four' were there as some sort of connection to the story

*joins the club of "The ousiders"-lovers* It's hard to belive Susan E Hinton was just 17 when she wrote it ! I think I have to rewatch the movie this evening And there's another Beatles reference in it: Socs like Beatles and think Elvis is outdated and the Greasers think it the other way around - thats about the only difference according to Ponyboy.